Improvement in stump-extractors



thrtrd (Staten aient (itiitiirg JAMES M. EASON, OF CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA.

Letters Patent Wo. 192,516, dated May 3, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN STUMPEXTRACTORS The Schedule referred to in these`Letters Patent and making part of the Same.

To all whom it may concern':

Be it known that 1, JAMES M. EASOX, of Charles` ton, in the district of Charleston and State of South Carolina, have invented a new and improved Stump- Pnller; and I do hereby declare that the following is a fnll, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in theart to make and use the same, 1'eference being had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification.

This invention relates to .improvements in machinery `for pulling stumps, and consists in suspending; the

chain-hook from any suitable portable frame, by two pairs of arms, toggle-jointed to nuts, on a right-andleft-threaded horizontal screw, which is provided with a hand-lever, ratchet, and pawl, at the center, for applying the power l'or raising the stmnps by screwing the nuts away from each other, and with shortlevers at one end for turning it rapidly to force the nuts to- B B' are the two pairs of arms suspended on a. pivot,- C, common to both, at the top, and connectedto the ring or hook D for connecting the chain.

Each pair is jointed to the nuts E, one having- `a right-hand, and the other a left-hand thread, and both placed on the right-and-left-threaded screw G, whereon, at the center, is a ratchet-wheel, H, and pawllever, I, by-which the power is to be applied Afor forc- Aing the mits apart, and. thereby raising the ring or hook D.,

This screw also has short hand-levers, K, at one end, for turning it rapidly to move the nuts together and le't the ring or hook down.

This arrangement is very-simple, cheap, light, and powerful, andaffords'an economical and usei'ubstnmppuller.

Having thus described my invention, Y

I claim ,I as new and desire to secure. by -Letters Patentr The combination with the two pairs of arms B `B" suspended from the frame, connected to the hookA or ring D, and to the right-and-left-threaded mits E, as described, of the right-aml-left-threaded screw, ratchet, ratchet-lever, and the hand-levers K, all slibstantially as specified.

, Y J. M. EASON.

Witnesses z J No. G. THURs'ro s', D. H. JACQUES. 

